Update: Police find missing Oakland boy

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Nathanial Binder, 9, was reported missing in North Oakland on Tuesday, July 23, 2013.

UPDATE: Oakland police located a 9-year-old boy who went missing earlier Tuesday and have returned him safe to his parents, authorities said.

Police located the boy in Oakland after 7 p.m. and said he was fine. An officer would provide few other details. The incident was not being investigated as an abduction. END UPDATE

Police are looking for a 9-year-old boy who was reported missing in north Oakland Tuesday.

Nathanial Binder was last seen at his home on the 400 block of 40th Street at about 11:30 a.m., police said.

His father said they had argued earlier because he wouldn’t let him wear a new pair of shoes.

Nathanial, who was reported to be in good mental and physical condition, does not have a history of running away, according to police.

He s about 4-foot-6 and 110 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, yellow-and-blue shorts, a red jacket with white-and-blue trim, and blue-and-green Converse sneakers. He was also carrying a black backpack with a neon-green trim.

Anyone with information should call Oakland police’s Department of Missing Persons at (510) 238-3641, Crime Stoppers of Oakland at (510) 777-8672 or the tip line at (510) 777-2805.